Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-07-06

(not then fit for use) may cleanse the
bowels Of the calf from the fetal mat
ter within it. for. which the two or three
musings from the dam are sufficient.
After that the calf, by aid Of the attend
ants finger. soon learns to drink the
new milk in a bucket, warm from the
cows udder, for about a week. For
another week new and skimmnd milk,
half and half in quantity, is mixed and
given to it twice day. From that
time onward purely skinned only is
given night and morning, whatever it
may need: The milk must be warmed
to blood heat. Cold milk may cause
securing always to be avoid if possible
and when it occurs little wheat flour
may be mixed with it, which in most
cases will shortly correct it. As soon
as the calf will eat little cut hay with
meal on it, or even well-cured clover
hay in the colder months, give it all it
will eat of that food and continue the
milk until five or six months old, and
even longer if you have the milk to
spare. Never stunt the calf in growth
as it will diminish its rapid thrift, so nec-
essary to the well developed COW. My
own warm calf stable is within thirty
feet of the dairy house, where the warm.
milk is readily taken by the butter MAX
er. They drink all they all they want
and are contented. In very cold or
stormy weather they do not go out of
the stable, but when the genial season
comes on they run out into five or six
acre blue grass lot adjoining, and Craze
or play at their leisure as best pleases
them. AS a consequence or such treat
ment they are always in good condition.
even to fairness for the butcher, if so
needed, or accident occurs to them.
The stable contains an average of if
teen to twenty in number of feeding
calves, according to the season, and
Winter calves are as easily reared as
Spring calves.-L. F. ALLEN in Stock
man and Farmer.
BUSY BIRDS.
Professor Budd, in the Iowa State
Register, says: '.Few realize the work
OF the busy birds in distributing the
seeds of our fruits, shrubs and trees.
Last Fall when directing the blowing
up OF sprouts from the edge of row
of elderberry, we noticed seedlings of
grape, raspberry, strawberry, currant,
goosberry, mulberry and other cult
waited plants. At first we were puzzled
to account for the variety of species UNI
til we happened to think that it was
a favorite resort for the birds from the
time the first elderberry began to turn,
until late in the Fall. Passing this
clump again to-day, noticed seedlings
further in, of tree honeysuckles, shrub
berry, St. Johnswort, mock orange,
Missouri currant and one or two other
shrubs of the college grounds. none of
which grew near, In the Seeding bus
mess the birds may aid US in our
attempts to secure varieties adapted to
our climate
EDUCATING BOYS FOR THE FARM.
The farmer who has sons to train to
be his assistants and hopes to see tn EN-
love and take the care from his Shout
ders when he is old should take great
pains to instruct them in the best way
of doing things. Teach them to look
for a reason for all they do. It is much
easier to form a right habit than to break
up wrong, careless one, and the bov
who learns to do well all that he does
will not only be more successful as a
farmer, but will love his calling more.
To one who looks for the reason of
things and becomes familiar with ma
ture, the life of farmer becomes a
perpetual delight, but to the farmer
who plods along in the old ruts,
putting no thought or study
into his work, it seems all drudg-
cry and his chances of success are
small.-Correspondent National Stock
man.
CURING HAY WITHOUT BLEACHING.
This is essential to the best quality
of hay. The common practice of let
ting the grass lie in the swath without
stirring is both slow and wasteful
method of curing hay. When the yield
is large-as it generally will be under
good farm management--the upper
layer of grass will dry out and viii
sometimes become bleached by sun and
dew before the lower layer will be even
wilted. What we need to secure is
the rapid and uniform curing of the
entire swath of grass. For this pur-
pose the hay tedder is invaluable.